Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

I've seen death and I didn't like it.

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.